
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar aims both to conduct research locally and to make connections to the larger resources of Pittsburgh and the other global Carnegie Mellon campuses.
Its “problem-solving” activities relate to both theoretical issues, with long-term implications to understanding our world, and practical ones that have immediate application. Some of these may be of specific concern to Doha or Pittsburgh, or they may be global.
Research projects in Qatar cover such areas as public policy, social sciences, computer architecture, robotics, implementing technology in developing communities, computer security.
There are projects on mobile autonomous robots, machine learning for robots, robot vision, multi-robot systems and Artificial Intelligence, computer vision, human-computer interaction, mobile robots, stereo vision and teleoperation
Other areas of research include the organizational consequences and strategic uses of information technology, as well as business process redesign, business process management and e-government. Production and operations management, global operations and control, performance management and supply chain management also come under study.